The Coronavirus pandemic has catalyzed a rapid increase of telehealth adoption. Leveraging telehealth platforms, patients are able to speak with doctors and nurses without having to risk exposure to themselves or others.
By Ian Terry, Information Security Consultant at Intraprise...
Security researchers from cybersecurity firm Wizcase discovered misconfigured databases leaking millions of records belonging to five dating service providers in the U.S. and East Asia. Wizcase stated that the leaky databases were hosted on the Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and AWS...
Xchanging, DXC Technology’s subsidiary and an Australian based IT services provider rendering services to insurance companies, reportedly experienced a ransomware attack. According to its website, Xchanging is primarily insurance managed services provider operating as a separate entity and thus,...
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) issued a set of guidelines on securing IPsec (IP security) and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) against potential cyberthreats. The NSA advisory also highlighted the importance of using strong cryptography techniques to protect sensitive...
An unknown hacker took control of over 22,900 unsecured MongoDB databases that were left online without password protection, a number that accounts for roughly47% of all MongoDB databases available online, according to the Sophos report.
The hacker uploaded a ransom...
Zero Trust as a concept has but one fundamental assumption. Nothing should be implicitly trusted - not your identities, not your devices, not your network components. “Trust, but Verify”, gives way to “Do not trust. Verify every time.” The...
A fire broke out at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on July 2, 2020. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behruz Kamalvandi, said that the incident took place at one of the industrial sheds under construction at the...
Security research firm vpnMentor reported that fitness brand V Shred suffered a data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of 99,000 of its customers and trainers. The exposed information included V Shred users’ names, home addresses, social...
A research from technology website Comparitech revealed that K–12 school districts and colleges across the U.S. have suffered over 1,300 data breaches since 2005. More than 24.5 million records have been compromised in the data breaches.
According to the research,...
KELA, a darknet intelligence firm discovered that a hacker group “KelvinSecurity” compromised the personal information of 384,319 BMW customers in the U.K. and put them for sale on various darknet forums, SC Magazine reported.
The hacker group claimed that they...
